Imposing regional monotonicity on translog stochastic production frontiers with a simple three-step procedure

Journal of Productivity Analysis

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-229

  Henningsen, Arne ^a,b   Henning, Christian H C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Minimum distance estimation; Monotonicity; Stochastic frontier analysis; Theoretical consistency; Translog

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350359496     PISSN: 0895562X     EISSN: 15730441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11123-009-0142-x     Document Type: Article

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